CVE-2006-7175

Summary

CVECVE-2006-7175
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-03-27 23:19:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-05 21:16:00 UTC
DescriptionThe version of Sendmail 8.13.1-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier does not allow the administrator to disable SSLv2 encryption, which could cause less secure channels to be used than desired.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update4 All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 update4 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
172352 – (CVE-2006-7175) Sendmail allows SSLv2 during STARTTLS, and the CipherList config option isn't supported so you can't turn it off MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-04-27Mark J Cox** DISPUTED ** Sendmail classes the CipherList directive as "for future release"; currently unsupported and undocumented. Therefore the lack of support for the CipherList directive in various Red Hat products is not a vulnerability.
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